Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · Illinois

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire

Lake Bluff, IL · ~49 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire runs at 446% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire: 14.3 TCR = 446% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire safety composite

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−6.6

2022→2024

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire injury rate improved

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire's TCR fell 6.6 from 18.4 in 2022 to 11.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=18.4 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=11.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Lake Bluff, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 446% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #198/262
  • PHOTO PUB. SAFETY 475 S. 3…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PUB. SAFETY 475 S. 300 E. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Village of Lake Bluff- Fire in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Village of Lake Bluff- Fire averages 14.3 TCR (446% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire TCR series: 2022=18.4 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Village of Lake Bluff- Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #198 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire (49 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Village of Lake Bluff- Fire
Village of Lake Bluff- Fire (49 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Village of Lake Bluff- Fire has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 11.7 0.0 2 0 0
2023 12.7 6.4 1 1 0
2022 18.4 0.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Lake Bluff

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Lake Bluff, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR PUB. SAFETY 475 S. 300 E. 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Miguel Fire Protection District 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Burbank - Fire - Safety Members 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 7: Warner 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boller Construction Co., Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Performance Pipelining INC 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM. Aupperle & Sons, Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE RI Glass Group 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDC3 1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DCH4 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI ENERGY SERVICES, LLC 533 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mariani Landscape 488 FTE
NAT-TCR 1001 Erie School District 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Landing at Stone Oak 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health Greenway Clinic 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Broward County - BSO North 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hawaiian Host LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dacon Industries Co 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Firestone Walker Inc. -- Buellton CA 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hammond Lumber Company - Rochester 49 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.